Recommended Books

The Big Picture: Food Politics

  • Diet for a Dead Planet: How the Food Industry is Killing Us, Christopher D. Cook
  • Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, Eric Schlosser
  • Food Fight: The Inside Story of the Food Industry, America’s Obesity Crisis, and What We Can Do About It, Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen
  • Safe Food and Food Politics, Marion Nestle
  • Trust Us, We’re Experts! and Toxic Sludge is Good for You, John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton

Diet, Health, and Our Food System

  • Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating, Walter Willett, M.D., co-developed with the Harvard School of Public Health
  • Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies about the Safety of Genetically Engineered Foods, Jeffrey Smith
  • Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story, Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers

Solutions

  • Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket, Brian Halweil
  • Hope’s Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet, Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé
  • Raising Healthy Children in a Toxic World: 101 Smart Solutions For Every Family, Philip Landrigan, Herbert Needleman, Mary Landrigan